[thelist] tracking form submissions

Larry Levenson larry at sigmawebstudios.com
Sat Feb 25 10:03:29 CST 2006


I would consider adding a unique hidden field to each of the contact 
forms, and add two fields to the database: type (which would be the 
value of the unique field) and timestamp (to capture the date). Then 
it's simple to sort these results by type and date.

Larry Levenson
Sigma  Web Studios

At 07:01 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote:

>One of my client's has about 4 different contact forms on his website. When
>someone completes the form it is passed to a php script that emails it to
>his assistant. He now wants me to implement some sort of tracking on it so
>that he can find out how many forms were completed in a given time period.
>Perfectly capable of having the script update a field or create a new record
>in a mySQL database, but I wonder if that would be overkill. Would there be
>an easier/better way to track this? Obviously this isn't anything major, I'm
>just attempting to think outside my little self taught box.
>
>-jeremy


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